Google appears to be testing a new tool called Cloudboard, a service designed to act as a clipboard that shares data between Gmail, Google Docs, and other Google applications.

Google-focused weblog Google Operating System discovered an internal feedback form (it's currently disabled) asking users to share their experience with Cloudboard, which the form describes as a "server-side clipboard for Google Apps." From Google Operating System:

Google provides an example of copying data from Google Spreadsheets to Google Docs: "if you copy a formatted cell range in Trix (cell border, colors, etc.) and then paste into Writely, it's transformed into a comparably-styled HTML table."

Sounds handy enough. In internal Google-speak, Trix is Google Spreadsheets, while Writely is Google Docs. (Writely was the service Google acquired and turned into Docs.)

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If you want to glean more details of the service from the feedback form, you can check a screenshot of the full form here. What do you think? Does a Google-based clipboard from moving rich data between Google applications seems like something you'd use? Let's hear your thoughts in the comments.